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Do SSHDs need cooling?

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No, modern harddrives/SSD's run fine without any extra attention to cooling :)

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Nope.

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hardrives never really needed cooling

 

10000RPM drives kinda do, you really want at least some airflow over them especially if you have more than one and if they're all cramped up in a hard drive cage.

 

To the OP, for a normal harddrive it really shouldn't matter, I wouldn't worry about it.

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I have a Seagate 1 TB hybrid drive that I want to move to an area in my case that won't get airflow (like the 5.25 bays). But, does it need airflow from a fan?

It runs like a normal platter hard drive, just has a small SSD cache drive so cooling is just as much as any normal drive.. little to none

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10000RPM drives kinda do, you really want at least some airflow over them especially if you have more than one and if they're all cramped up in a hard drive cage.

 

To the OP, for a normal harddrive it really shouldn't matter, I wouldn't worry about it.

You are right... But as somebody with a velociraptor... The heat has been somewhat exaggerated. The aluminum shell that they put on it was for more of a cool factor. It doesn't get a ton hotter than most other drives. Just a tiny bit hotter. Even a terrible fan near it will be sufficient. 

 

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I have a Seagate 1 TB hybrid drive that I want to move to an area in my case that won't get airflow (like the 5.25 bays). But, does it need airflow from a fan?

It doesn't need airflow, but I also wouldn't put it somewhere like the reverse side of a motherboard tray.

A 5.25" bay should be fine though.

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You are right... But as somebody with a velociraptor... The heat has been somewhat exaggerated. The aluminum shell that they put on it was for more of a cool factor. It doesn't get a ton hotter than most other drives. Just a tiny bit hotter. Even a terrible fan near it will be sufficient. 

 

Don't question the fact that I have one... It was really freaking cheap at microcenter many years ago :P

 

I had 3 of them in raid 0 (terrible idea, never do this) in a mid-tower case with limited airflow, bad idea. They easily got to 50°C and they heated up all the other components in my case. Again, totally my own fault, but it was the only reasonable option to shorten loading times back when SSDs had astronomical prices....

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I had 3 of them in raid 0 (terrible idea, never do this) in a mid-tower case with limited airflow, bad idea. They easily got to 50°C and they heated up all the other components in my case. Again, totally my own fault, but it was the only reasonable option to shorten loading times back when SSDs had astronomical prices....

Haha yeah 3 of them with little airflow can be a bad idea :P 

 

I'm referring more to a single one.

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Wow, such wrongness in this thread ... :(

 

Do hard drives get hot and being that a sshd is half if not more an HHD yes it gets hot, don't believe me run the smart tools on it and read the temp out. My scratch drive that's currently idle reads at 34 degrees C, that's 93 F, when's the last time you were in 93 F weather? Was it nice, so nice you ran around without a care? NFW. Then, start writing to the drive to no end guess what happens and even for one drive sitting all alone in a drive bay with a fan? The temps go up and up, especially if you are writing and writing to it even running an intensive search, the temps go up. Lets see its at 93 F idle, guess where it will go to if being access a lot? Yup 100 F or greater. If that's not hot for you then you must live in the desert and like it because that is freaking hot! Lets say the sshd is better since its part SSD, what is the idle temp?

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Wow, such wrongness in this thread ... :(

 

Do hard drives get hot and being that a sshd is half if not more an HHD yes it gets hot, don't believe me run the smart tools on it and read the temp out. My scratch drive that's currently idle reads at 34 degrees C, that's 93 F, when's the last time you were in 93 F weather? Was it nice, so nice you ran around without a care? NFW. Then, start writing to the drive to no end guess what happens and even for one drive sitting all alone in a drive bay with a fan? The temps go up and up, especially if you are writing and writing to it even running an intensive search, the temps go up. Lets see its at 93 F idle, guess where it will go to if being access a lot? Yup 100 F or greater. If that's not hot for you then you must live in the desert and like it because that is freaking hot! Lets say the sshd is better since its part SSD, what is the idle temp?

 

Nope, that's not at all hot for a hard drive...

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